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| Taliban poison schoolgirls to discourage female education |
| 2004-04-30 |
| Three Afghan schoolgirls were in critical condition after being poisoned in the southeastern town of Khost in what officials said on Friday was a Taliban attempt to discourage female education in the region. A Taliban spokesman denied the allegation. The girls, aged between 10 and 15, ate poisoned biscuits offered to them by a man on Wednesday, said the spokeswoman for the provincial department of Women’s Affairs, Shahina Sharif. The military commander of the province Khialbaz Khan said the ousted Taliban militia were behind the poisoning to "deter girls from going to school." However, Taliban spokesman Litfullah Hakimi, speaking to AFP from an unknown location, denied the allegation. The girls had been attending the only school which accepts females in Khost. |
| Posted by:TS (vice girl) |
| #37 Cingold do you have any idea about ANYTHING a person who in your words proudly supports President Bush cannot afford to criticise anyone else. Think of all those dead Americans who will never come home. I know you don't care about all the lives in Iraq Bush has ruined etc etc |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-30 10:12:23 PM |
| #36 Ex lib you are SO prejudiced maybe you should join the KKK. You say you are ex lib does this mean you once had different views? |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-30 10:05:00 PM |
| #35 They are the same It's just that Christians believe Jesus is God's son and Muslims do not. |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-30 2:34:04 PM |
| #34 Allah is God It's just that the Taliban (who are probably poorly educated) have the wrong ideas about what God wants. A poor illiterate man will hear some Taliban person say something about what he (the taliban person)thinks about what God wants and as the poor man cannot read and inform himself he believes it. It is not God's will of course that girls not learn anything it's just the Taliban's view. Hopefully Afghani children will receive a good education and grow up being able to think and the Taliban will lose it's influence. |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-30 2:28:01 PM |
| #33 Very sad whoever did it. It just shows that religion can be harmful when taken to extremes as the Taliban do with Islam. Everyone has a right to an education. It is not against God's will to learn. |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-30 2:10:38 PM |
| #32 Oh, Antisemite, you're back? Can't believe you're commenting on a thread about Islamonazis. They are the same It's just that Christians believe Jesus is God's son and Muslims do not Yeah, except that they disagree with the central tenet of Christianity, they're just the same. And then there's the part where it's a drooling, Jewhating, death cult that never ever looks in the mirror. No wonder Antisemite doesn't think that's much of a problem--for her, that's a feature, not a bug. |
| Posted by: BMN 2004-04-30 11:26:14 PM |
| #31 ex-lib for the answers to your questions, just go here or here |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-04-30 10:34:21 PM |
| #30 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-30 10:12:23 PM |
| #29 Antiwar is a fake -- she pretends to be a nice, concerned liberal, but s/he gets real nasty when support for islamofascists (including undermining Western society and values) is confronted too directly. So as not to waste bandwidth, you can read the Same Story, Different Day right here. |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-04-30 10:06:47 PM |
| #28 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-30 10:05:00 PM |
| #27 Yes, yes, yes, I know ex-lib, and occassionally highjack her computer, and (yes) she's dead . . . ; ) OTOH, she writes well (if a bit racey at times), makes some great points, and if (say, as a penance) she were to do all¹ my writing for me . . . ¹ All, meaning motions, responses, trial briefs, appellate briefs, position statements, pleadings . . . : ) |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-04-30 10:02:51 PM |
| #26 How come Islamic scholar Antiwar won't answer me? I still want to know about those guy virgins! |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-30 9:16:55 PM |
| #25 Now Frank, you really dont have to insult petri dish cultures do you? Have some cultural diversity..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-30 6:39:25 PM |
| #24 I've seen more advanced cultures in a petri dish |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-30 6:35:44 PM |
| #23 people,people,people it's all good.After all it's part thier culture.Just ask Antigum. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-04-30 6:15:56 PM |
| #22 I like the Taliban...well done after a hellfire hit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-30 5:31:45 PM |
| #21 How dare we question a vital aspect of the "cultural heritage" of the Taliban! Haven't you heard of "multiculturalism"? ________________________________borgboy speaks in the subjunctive... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-04-30 5:28:46 PM |
| #20 stay safe ex-lib :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-30 5:20:10 PM |
| #19 Odd duck |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-30 4:39:08 PM |
| #18 I really do know how to operate this computer. Really I do. Okay: #16 & #17 are ME-ME-ME ex-lib (who will be dead about 6:30 tonight) Well, it's been really nice knowing all of you. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-30 4:37:26 PM |
| #17 Uh the last post #16 was ME, ex-lib. Oooooopsie-dooopsie, doopsie . . . Occasionally friends of mine highjack my computer. Sorry 'bout that cingold! (cingold's gonna kill me . . . he's a very diplomatic, polite person--unlike me . . . ) |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-04-30 4:35:05 PM |
| #16 "It's just that the Taliban (who are probably poorly educated) have the wrong ideas about what God wants." And it's just Anti And "Allah" (the god of War, historically) "is God," Antiwar claims. So is she, ( he, it, them) against Allah, then? Since she goes by "Antiwar" --her name would be properly translated Anti-Allah or Anti-God. (Little "antichrist" is more like it.) I'm so confused . . . ( not ). "Hopefully Afghani children will receive a good education and grow up being able to think and the Taliban will lose it's influence." Yeah. Like those little Israeli kindergarteners Antisense is so fond of. But Anti-war-against-Islam: if they grow up to think , they won't listen to you either. I'm sure you don't want that to happen, do you? And Antilight: I've been meaning to ask you something. You see, I'm interested in learning all I can about Islam and about how we can bring peace to this troubled world. It's sad when bad things happen--like the poisoning of those little girls. My question is: When a female Moslem dies a martyr, does she get 72 virgin males to f-ck < EM> her for all eternity, like the guy Moslems get? Or is the sex-discrimination-rampant-in-Islam stuff simply confined to the here and now? Oh--a few more questions along the same lines. Are there ever any arguments over who gets to "do" the "glorified martyr" person? Or does everyone just line up. Is it take-a-number like at the post office? How many times a day do they--you know? What do the others do during their "off time?" Do they watch, or is it private? Semi-private? And lastly: Are the females that make it to Islam-ick paradise "de"-infibulated? Are the female virgin groups infibulated virgins or not? Do write soon, because I'm just concerned that if young people are blowing themselves and others up for nothing, (I mean, like, if the cashing-in-on-the-free-virgin-sex stuff is not true or something) I think you'd be just the person to stop them. I just don't know if you've ever thought about all the good you could be doing in the world, Antiwar. Just think! Our very own Antiwar busy putting an end to all the senseless killing and poisoning! Wouldn't that be special?!! LOL sludj, Raj and mucky! |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-04-30 4:29:45 PM |
| #15 so anti-war is saying (at least the part that is readable) that it was good thing for the talibs to be overthrown.... |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-04-30 4:15:22 PM |
| #14 im guesing antiwar never going to adress the kinegartners in israel. she didnt last time i dont know why thought this time be diferent. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-30 2:49:51 PM |
| #13 Excuse me, but probably poorly educated? Like that isn't self-evident? Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick, what freakin' planet do you come from, Antiwar? |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-30 2:48:18 PM |
| #12 They are the same It's just that Christians believe Jesus is God's son and Muslims do not. And if you tell a Muslim that God did have a son, he'll kill you. Otherwise, they're the same, yep, yep, no difference at all. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-04-30 2:47:15 PM |
| #11 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-30 2:34:04 PM |
| #10 Ask a Muslim if Allah had a Son, and you will come to understand that God and Allah are not the same. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-30 2:29:07 PM |
| #9 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-30 2:28:01 PM |
| #8 like peples throwing rock at kinegartners to right antiwar? |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-30 2:12:56 PM |
| #7 It is not against God's will to learn. It is, however, against Allah's. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-30 2:12:03 PM |
| #6 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-30 2:10:38 PM |
| #5 To be fair this might not be the taliban but some pervert. Perverts exist everywhere. On the other hand the 'officals' might have a damn good reason to blame the Taliban and I would not put it past them...... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-30 1:52:03 PM |
| #4 I can see that yet another element of democracy has so far failed to take root in the Afghan culture - vigilante justice. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-30 1:48:06 PM |
| #3 The tender, merciful love of Allan in action. |
| Posted by: sludj 2004-04-30 1:41:55 PM |
| #2 next leson shuld be not accept food from strangers. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-30 1:39:38 PM |
| #1 Mullah Omar Sez : "God is Great. Poison girls who have the audacity to want to learn to read. God is Great" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-04-30 1:32:17 PM |